Power Quality means maintaining purely sinusoidal current wave form in phase with a purely sinusoidal voltage wave form throughout in a power system. Due to intensive use of power converters and other non linear loads in industries, an increasing deterioration of the power system voltage and current waveforms has been observed. The most important cause for degrading power quality are harmonic d...

Active power filters are widely used for the reduction of harmonics in the power system caused by nonlinear loads. The Shunt Active Power Filter (SAPF) injects a suitable compensating current at a point of the line known as the point of common coupling (PCC) so that the harmonics present in the line are cancelled out and the sinusoidal nature of voltage and current waveforms are restored. A thr...

Received Oct 15, 2016 Revised Dec 21, 2016 Accepted Dec 31, 2016 The use of a new control method for grid-connected inverters for reducing the output current harmonic distortion in a wide range of grid-connected distributed generation (DG) applications, including wind turbine (WT) and fuel cell (FC) inverters is proposed in this paper. The control method designed to eliminate main harmonics in ...

This paper presents unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) system based on three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) using Fuzzy and ANN controllers. The proposed UPQC is able to mitigate source current harmonics compensate all voltage disturbances. It designed by the integration of series shunt active filters (AFs) sharing a common DC bus capacitor. maintained constant proportional integral co...

This paper presents modeling, simulation and control of matrix converter (MC) for variable speed wind turbine (VSWT) system including permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG). At a given wind velocity, the power available from a wind turbine is a function of its shaft speed. In order to track maximum power, the MC adjusts the PMSG shaft speed.The proposed control system allowing independen...

In this paper, a single-phase Seven-Level and Five-Level cascaded H-Bridge Inverter (CHB) based Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM) is presented. A simple control algorithm based on inverse park PLL was proposed for both five-level and seven-level inverters. Synchronous Reference Frame theory (SRF) as control algorithm is used for reference source current extraction and to generate gatin...

In this paper, a composite control strategy for improved off-grid configuration based on photovoltaic (PV array), wind turbine (WT), and diesel engine (DE) generator to achieve high performance while supplying nonlinear loads is investigated. To operate the WT efficiently under variable speed conditions obtain accurate fast convergence maximum global operating point without sensor, an iterative...

This paper suggests a new control method to modify the virtual impedance performance in unbalanced conditions. The proposed method compensates the voltage drop that occurred due to the virtual impedance and adjusts the voltage of the point of common coupling at a desirable level. To compensate the voltage drop, the reference voltage in the droop control varies according to the proposed algorith...

Abstract: The integration of renewable power sources with power grids presents many challenges, such as synchronization with the grid, power quality problems and so on. The shunt active power filter (SAPF) can be a solution to address the issue while suppressing the grid-end current harmonics and distortions. Nonetheless, available SAPFs work somewhat unpredictably in practice. This is attribut...